With the “active” sort, I regularly get posts on top of my feed that were originally made days or weeks ago, but still have discussions going on in the comments. I dont think thats a negative thing at all.

Well no, because app users can’t use it if it is only implemented in the web UI

I’m actually surprised. Paradox games usually release bugged and unfinished, and all reviews from critics and players I’ve seen suggest that EUV is both really historical accurate flavoury and fun to play at release!

Good to see!

ATProto is open. Bluesky is not.

What we currently see is similar to how ActivityPub looked when it was first drawn up as a protocol: when 99% of users were on Mastodon GmbH’s server.

The ten thousands of servers came later. And in theory ATProto is defined open enough that it is possible to implement it independently from Bluesky.

Well, it is developed by a sole developer who also solo-develops Pixelfed. The guy spreads himself way too thin, so development moves slow.

I was confused there for a second but apparently the BBC has introduced a paywall only for US users. Site is still completely free to read anywhere else, which is why I didnt even realize that there is a paywall.

Which of course means that US Americans could simply VPN their way around it…

HLL let’s you play both sides, so I expect this to also do

Fediverse Observer says Piefed MAU were 352 in May, 1068 in June and 1615 in July. So thats a rise of ~1300 people in two months.

People are lazy, that’d be my explaination for why they’d use Patreon

A new research paper on the lemmygrad.ml Lemmy instance, called “Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml“. Within Lemmy there exists a subculture of various instances, most notably Hexbear and Lemmygrad, that self-describes as Marxist and/or leftist, and partially intersects with the developers of Lemmy. There is interesting research to be done on how that sub-community impacts the wider culture of the Threadiverse. This published paper limits itself to data from 2019 to 2022, which misses out on how these communities and cultures have developed over the more recent years. For example, the Hexbear instance was not federating with the rest of the network for a while, only to turn federation back on over a year ago, and it would be interesting to explore how that has impacted other Lemmy servers.

That doesnt necessarily mean that training AI on this data is legal. Especially when multiple of these instances had legal documents in place specifically forbidding this kind of use.

Looks like he is putting features into Loops that were originally planned for Pixelfed, but didnt work to implement there (Pixelfed is said to have a very messy codebase, dansup recently said that for weeks he had a broken CI on github).

Sounds nice

I mean, PayPal has not denied responsibility so far. Which is pretty interesting

A lawyer for a processor like PayPal or Stripe could easily have gone “uh, the Mastercard contract clause prohibits this”.

And PayPal is well known for doing shitty things, so it wouldn’t surprise me.

Sounds like Visa and Mastercard have clauses in their contracts that they don’t even care about themselves, but payment processors like Stripe are bound to then

Both of these points are common denominators for the end of the european middle ages, so it’s not surprising they are close to each other

My problem with that is that I use a phone cover. Flashing a light on the side of the phone however could be great.

I’m pretty sure Yemen is outside of Africa, yet America and Europe have not gone after Saudi Arabia and the UAE for their war crimes there.

What might be the connecting factor here?

This reads like an Onion headline

And the dev team for Cities Skylines II kept saying the team felt it was ready, while it was a hot mess. They have an interest in publishing it now.

Launching into early access while not being up to certain standard could hurt the brand.

Now maybe the game was ready and it’s all Krafton’s fault. All I’m saying is that it is absolutely possible that the game isnt ready.